S2 EP3 - Greed

Avarice, or Greed as we would call it today, now there’s a proper vice, one we can all surely identify with, claim and confess to. One of the defining quotations of the materialistic 1980s came from the fictional character Gordon Gecko, the junk bond pirate played by Michael Douglas in the Oliver Stone film, Wall Street. “Greed,” he tells a dinner of fellow financiers, “for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works”. It’s easy to dismiss this. Your instinct might be to shake your head sadly, or scoff angrily. Yet... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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S2 EP3 - Greed is an episode from Stephen Fry's Great Leap Years.

This episode is 33:43 long.

This episode was published on Jan 27, 2020.

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